The Quad Urbanist

An Urbanist Blog from the Quad Cities

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

What To Build, When

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This post about ST3 (the third installment of the Sound Transit Link expansion) interested me in its own right, but I want to use it as a j...
Sunday, January 11, 2026

Costs and Cars

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 This study from Forbes suggests that car ownership costs a lot of money, relative to using bikes in particular. I think this is correct, b...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Mental Effort

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For this Christmas Eve, I'm thinking about how travel takes effort. Not just physical effort, but mental: you gotta figure out how to go...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

Cold and Snow

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Look, here in Iowa we've had our share and more than our share of cold and snow already this fall-winter (it's not technically winte...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Optimism and Pessimism

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  This excellent post on how trams and tramways can be built well or badly made me think more broadly about the significance of both optimi...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

Shared Streets (Autoluw) and Space

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This post  made me want to talk about how we conceive of space. It's about Seattle (and really, Washington State) getting a legal space ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Bare Ruin'd Choirs (or Missing the Trolleybus)

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  This article about Seattle's trolleybuses made me feel some feelings, since I grew up in Seattle taking trolleybuses fairly frequentl...
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